Project Spotlight:
Rewards Trust
Kancheepuram District, Tamil Nadu
Project Stewards: Vidhi Patel and Kaavya Venkat
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Target: Children in rural Dalit and Adivasi Communities
Reward Trust is a volunteer-run, zero-overhead organization that works on creating a strong government school system in rural Tamil Nadu. This is accomplished by adding well-qualified, well-trained teachers to the government classrooms and providing continuous teacher training. Several of their teachers have received commendations from the government for their stellar teaching performances. Reward Trust serves close to 8000 students in 25 villages and emphasizes smaller class sizes and better trained teachers. Hundreds more students are graduating and continue on to pursue higher education
For more information: http://ashanet.org/project/?pid=590
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What Your Money Goes Towards:
$140 - Pays a month of a teacher's salary
$840 - Pays 6 months of a teacher's salary
$1680 - Pays for a year of a teacher's salary
*Monetary amounts based on previous project proposal, are rounded, and are based on the day's rupee to dollar conversion.
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Calling all alumni and supporters!! We are looking for your feedback on how you would like to be informed and/or involved with Asha Berkeley. Please fill out a very short form by clicking the button below. Your opinion matters to us!
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Upcoming Event: Forum
The forum will be held on Wednesday April 18th from 6-8 PM at Moffit 101. We are currently contacting speakers.
*The flier on the left was designed by Kaavya Venkat.
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Decal Highlight
"In our Decal, we have been discussing issues around religious conflict, LGBTQ+ rights and health and sanitation. Students have pursued thought-provoking discussion through a variety of means on these important issues -- last lesson, we split the class into 3 and had them create individual presentations on public health, sanitation and education (respectively) in India. Something that has been especially rewarding is discussing issues about India that aren't commonly explored, namely through our LGBTQ+ lesson."
-Tara Madhav (Decal Facilitator)
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Member Spotlight: Aditya Mistry
Major: Political Science and Environmental Science
Year: Third Year
Hometown: Norwalk, CA
Role in Asha: Project Steward for Avantika Vidhya Bhavan, Images of India Coordinator
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"What I love about Asha is that not only am I giving back to children in India, but Asha has been a family for me in college and a place where I made a lot of close friends. I think the work that we do is really awesome and impactful for the children in India and I hope Asha can be a family and a support system for so many new members to come."
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